Ulysses S. Grant Memorial and Related Topics

National Mall

Landscaped park within the National Mall and Memorial Parks, an official unit of the United States National Park System.

National Mall proper and adjacent areas (April 2002). The Mall had a grassy lawn flanked on each side by unpaved paths and rows of American elm trees as its central feature. (Numbers in the image correspond to numbers in the list of landmarks, museums and other features below.)

June 2004 view from the United States Capitol, facing west across the National Mall towards the Washington Monument

Facing east on the National Mall, as viewed near the 1300 block of Jefferson Drive, S.W. in April 2010. Rows of American elm trees line the sides of a path traversing the length of the Mall.

West side of the U.S. Capitol building (September 2013)

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in July 2005, facing east towards the Washington Monument

The view of the Lincoln Memorial from the Reflecting Pool in April 2007.

National World War II Memorial (July 2017)

The west side of the Jefferson Pier in April 2011, with the Washington Monument in the background.

Rows of young American elm trees on the National Mall, looking east from the top of the Washington Monument circa 1942

This view from the top of the Washington Monument shows rows of elm trees lining the Reflecting Pool (November 2014).

Portrait of the Mall and vicinity looking northwest from southeast of the U.S. Capitol circa 1846-1855, showing stables in the foreground, the Washington City Canal behind them, the Capitol on the right and the Smithsonian "Castle", the Washington Monument and the Potomac River in the distant left.

The Lockkeeper's House in 2018, looking northwest

Route of the Washington City Canal, showing the Mall (1851)

The Smithsonian Institution Building ("The Castle") in February 2007, looking north from the Enid A. Haupt Garden

The National Mall was the centerpiece of the 1902 McMillan Plan. A central open vista traversed the length of the Mall.

Eastward view of the National Mall from the top of the Washington Monument in 1918. The three structures and two chimneys crossing the Mall are temporary World War I buildings A, B and C and parts of their central power plant.

Westward view from the top of the Washington Monument in 1943 or 1944 during World War II. In the foreground, temporary buildings on the Washington Monument grounds house the Navy's Bureau of Ships. The Main Navy and Munitions Buildings stand to the right of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Temporary buildings to the left of the Reflecting Pool house the Navy's Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.

Uncle Beazley on the National Mall between 1980 and 1994

National Park Service map showing the National Mall's designated reserve area referenced in the 2003 Commemorative Works Clarification and Revision Act

Barricade blocking walkway adjacent to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool during the 2013 federal government shutdown, looking east toward the Washington Monument undergoing repair

Aerial view of the Mall facing west between 1980 and 1999

Looking east from the top of the Washington Monument towards the National Mall and the United States Capitol in December 1999

2007 aerial view of Capitol Hill and the National Mall, facing west

Inlay of L'Enfant Plan in Freedom Plaza, looking northwest in June 2005 from the observation deck in the Old Post Office Building Clock Tower

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (June 2010)

National Christmas Tree (November 28, 2018)

A Christmas tree in front of the Capitol in December of 2013.

Tidal Basin and Jefferson Memorial at dusk, facing south in October 2011.

1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom on the National Mall facing east from the Lincoln Memorial

The first inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009, facing west from the Capitol

Independence Day fireworks display between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, July 4, 1986

The April 9, 1939, concert by Marian Anderson, facing east from the Lincoln Memorial

Britney Spears performs during the "NFL Kickoff Live from the National Mall Presented by Pepsi Vanilla" concert, September 4, 2003

The Concert for Valor on the National Mall on November 11, 2014, looking west from the United States Capitol grounds

The Smithsonian station on the Washington Metro in 2005

1863 photograph of the National Mall and vicinity during the Civil War, looking west towards the U.S. Botanical Garden, Washington City Canal, Gas Works, railroad tracks, Washington Armory, and Armory Square Hospital buildings. The Smithsonian Institution Building, the uncompleted Washington Monument (behind the Smithsonian's building), and the Potomac River are in the background.

The Victorian landscaping and architecture of the Mall looking east from the top of the Washington Monument, showing the influence of the Downing Plan and Adolph Cluss on the National Mall circa 1904. The Department of Agriculture Building, and above it, "The Castle", are in the foreground. A railroad route leading to a shed attached to the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station (not visible) crosses the Mall behind the Arts and Industry Building, the Army Medical Center, and the Armory.

View looking north of the National Mall with the Treasury Building in the background in April 1865.

View the National Mall with its livestock and the Treasury Building in the background in April 1865.

Looking east from the top of the Washington Monument towards the United States Capitol in the summer of 1901. The Mall exhibited the Victorian-era landscape of winding paths and random plantings that Andrew Jackson Downing designed in the 1850s

The Armory as a hospital during the Civil War

Department of Agriculture Building (circa 1895)

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Center Market between 1910 and 1930, looking southwest from 7th Street NW (at left)

Arts and Industries Building, looking southwest (March 2017)

Baltimore and Potomac Railroad station, looking southwest from 6th Street NW (at bottom and left)

Army Medical Museum and Library, looking northeast from Independence Avenue SW

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool before reconstruction (April 2010)

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool undergoing reconstruction (June 2011)

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool undergoing reconstruction (December 2011)

Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool after reconstruction (May 2016)

Axis of National Mall before restoration (July 2012)

Axis of National Mall undergoing restoration (April 2015)

Axis of National Mall undergoing restoration (October 2015)

Axis of National Mall after restoration (September 2016)

Aerial view of National Mall, Looking South

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (1922) (east of no. 8 on image)

Henry Shrady

Grant Memorial (1902-1922), United States Capitol, Washington, DC.

Shrady in his studio with sons Frederick and Lewis, circa 1911. His model for General Alpheus S. Williams is in the background.

George Washington at Valley Forge (1901–1906), Continental Army Plaza, Brooklyn, New York.

Robert E. Lee (1917–1924, completed by Leo Lentelli), Lee Park, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Jay Cooke Monument (1921), Jay Cooke Plaza, Duluth, Minnesota.

General Alpheus Starkey Williams Memorial (1810 – 1878) Henry Merwin Shady (1912–1921) Belle Isle Park, Detroit, Michigan

Henry Merwin Shrady (October 12, 1871 – April 12, 1922) was an American sculptor, best known for the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial on the west front of the United States Capitol in Washington, D.C.

Capitol Reflecting Pool

Reflecting pool in Washington, D.C., United States.

A mallard with ducklings at the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

The Capitol Dome and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial are reflected in its waters.

Union Square (Washington, D.C.)

11-acre public plaza at the foot of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States.

Vehicles entering the Third Street Tunnel, located under Union Square (2009)

It encompasses the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial (1924) and the 6-acre Capitol Reflecting Pool (1971) and is just west of the United States Capitol building.

Ulysses S. Grant

American military officer and politician who served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.

Grant's birthplace, Point Pleasant, Ohio

Chinook Indian Plank House Published 1845
Grant believed Pacific Northwest Indians were a peaceful people and not a threat to settlers.

"Hardscrabble" Published 1891
The farm home Grant built in Missouri for his family. His wife Julia called the home an "unattractive cabin".

Brigadier General Grant photographed at Cairo, Illinois, September 1861 (Published 1911)

21st Illinois regiment monument in the Viniard Field, Chickamauga

Grant's successful gamble: Porter's gunboats night ran the Confederate gauntlet at Vicksburg on the Mississippi River.
Published 1863

The Battle of Jackson, fought on May 14, 1863, was part of the Vicksburg Campaign.
Published 1863

Union troops swarm Missionary Ridge and defeat Bragg's army. Published 1886

Commanding General Grant at the Battle of Cold Harbor, June 1864

Grant (center left) next to Lincoln with General Sherman (far left) and Admiral Porter (right) – The Peacemakers by Healy, 1868

Defeated by Grant, Lee surrendered at Appomattox Court House

Grant–Colfax Republican Ticket
Published 1868

Inauguration of President U.S. Grant, Capitol building steps.
March 4, 1869

Anthony Comstock Grant's vigorous prosecutor of abortionists and pornographers.

Amos T. Akerman, appointed Attorney General by Grant, who vigorously prosecuted the Ku Klux Klan

Image of mobs rioting entitled "The Louisiana Outrage". White Leaguers at Liberty Place attacked the integrated police force and state militia, New Orleans, September 1874.
Published October 1874

Secretary of Treasury George S. Boutwell aided Grant to defeat the Gold Ring.

Secretary of State Hamilton Fish and Grant successfully settled the Alabama Claims by treaty and arbitration.

Wharf of Santo Domingo City
Dominican Republic

American Captain Frye and his crew were executed by Spanish authority.

King Kalākaua of Hawaii meets President Grant at the White House on his state visit, 1874.
Published January 2, 1875

Ely Samuel Parker
Grant appointed Parker the first Native American (Seneca) Commissioner of Indian Affairs.

Battle of the Little Big Horn
Great Sioux War
Published 1889

Cartoon by Thomas Nast on Grant's opponents in the reelection campaign

Grant is congratulated for vetoing the "inflation bill" in 1874.

Cartoonist Thomas Nast praises Grant for rejecting demands by Pennsylvania politicians to suspend civil service rules.

Harper's Weekly
cartoon on Bristow's Whiskey Ring investigation

Cartoonist Joseph Keppler lampooned Grant and his associates. Grant's prosecutions of the Whiskey Ring and the Klan were ignored.
Puck, 1880

Official White House portrait of President Grant by Henry Ulke, 1875

Commanding General Grant
Constant Mayer's portrait of 1866

Grant National Memorial, known as "Grant's Tomb", largest mausoleum in North America

In addition to his mausoleum—Grant's Tomb in New York City—there is the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial at the foot of Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. Created by sculptor Henry Merwin Shrady and architect Edward Pearce Casey, and dedicated in 1922, it overlooks the Capitol Reflecting Pool.

James A. Garfield Monument

Memorial to United States President James A. Garfield, elected in 1880 and assassinated in 1881 after serving only four months of his term, by a disgruntled office-seeker named Charles J. Guiteau.

One of three allegorical figures, Scholar, is at the base of the monument.

Today it stands as part of a three-part sculptural group near the Capitol Reflecting Pool including the Peace Monument and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial.

Peace Monument

Erected from 1877 to 1878 in commemoration of the naval deaths at sea during the American Civil War.

Grief holds her covered face against the shoulder of History and weeps in mourning.

Today it stands as part of a three-part sculptural group including the James A. Garfield Monument and the Ulysses S. Grant Memorial.

From Fra Burmeister og Wain's Iron Foundry, by Peder Severin Krøyer, 1885.

Roman Bronze Works

Bronze foundry in New York City.

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial by Henry Shrady at Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. (1924)

The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.

Presidential memorials in the United States

The presidential memorials in the United States honor the various presidents of the United States and seek to perpetuate their legacies.

Ulysses S. Grant Memorial

Sherry Edmundson Fry

American sculptor, who also played a prominent role in U.S. Army camouflage during World War I.

The western pediment, Washington, D.C., 1936

Among Fry's other public works are a pediment for the Frick Museum (New York), reliefs for the Grant Memorial (Washington, D.C.) based on sketches by Henry Merwin Shrady, the fountains at the Toledo Museum of Art (Toledo, Ohio), a statue of Ira Allen at the University of Vermont (Burlington), a memorial to Captain Thomas Abbey (Enfield, Connecticut), and a sculpture of Ceres, the goddess of grain, that stands on the peak of the Missouri State Capitol dome (Jefferson City, Missouri).